TAIPEI (AFP) - A Vietnamese woman searching for her father worked at his home in Taiwan for seven months without realising who he was before the relationship came to light, her father and police said Tuesday.

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Tran Thi Kham, 40, travelled to Taiwan in 2005 hoping to find her biological father, who fell in love with her Vietnamese mother in Hong Kong in 1967, police said.

Tran's mother became pregnant but was forced to return home for family reasons. She died two months after giving birth to Tran, leaving the baby an engraved gold ring and a photo of her Taiwanese father, who did not know she existed.

Giving his reaction to the meeting, Tran's father, Tsai Han-chao, told the local TVBS cable news channel: "Life's ups and downs are just like television drama. How could I have ever dreamed that she is my daughter? I can't stop crying when we were finally united."

Tran was hired by Tsai in Taipei county to look after his paralysed wife and was reassigned by an agency to a family on the offshore Kinmen island seven months later, after the woman died.

After arriving in Kinmen, Tran realised that she had left a bag containing her father's ring and photo in her ex-employer's home and asked the local police for help, the police in Kinmen said.

When Tsai opened the bag, he immediately recognised the items he had given his girlfriend.

He wasted no time flying to Kinmen for a tearful meeting with his daughter.

"This is incredible and really touching to see the father and daughter get together after all these years," said policeman Ku Ker-ya.

Ku told AFP that DNA testing had confirmed Tran's parentage and she returned to Vietnam last week to deal with legal documents.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080122/od_afp/taiwanvietnampeopleoffbeat;_ylt=AlawjrlPYwrOJYd3OiETbY2s0NUE

Hope she did not sleep with him to get the job. Thank God, this did not happen in Nigeria because chances are-------------------

this is soooo sweet. 

what wuld av happened if it happened in Nigeria  ,joy b real nigeria is nt all dat bad stop bad mouthin it pls. 

what a touching story, thats why we should always apply caution in whatever we do. imagine if this man was the randy type and had slept with his maid, that one na anoda story for anoda day.

almondjoy:

Hope she did not sleep with him to get the job. Thank God, this did not happen in Nigeria because chances are-------------------

LMFAO . . . . . . . . the thought crossed my mind too when i was reading the story. LOL!

almondjoy:

Hope she did not sleep with him to get the job. Thank God, this did not happen in Nigeria because chances are-------------------

Is this to insinuate in anyway that career women have to sleep their way up the ladder? i hope not cuz i be feminist o!

Is this to insinuate in anyway that career women have to sleep their way up the ladder? i hope not because i be feminist o!

sorry to spoil your party. sadly majority do. if this was naija this story would have had K-leg by now.

there are still small mercies

@ almondjoy

your mind work like a clock. hope you are having a blessed day?

i beg to differ but then that is not a topic for this thread